Patient education
Breast Implant Removal vs Replacement: The Choices
Eight guides to the implant decision, written for someone deciding whether to take a device out or exchange it. Both decisions are described with the same directness, neither is presented as a failure or as the default, and the guides say plainly when the problem is not the implant.
All guides
8 guides
- Removal or Replacement? What Each Decision Is Really AboutDeciding
- Who Removal Suits, and Who Is Better Served by ReplacementCandidacy
- What the Assessment Establishes Before Either OperationAssessment
- Recovery After Removal and After Replacement, ComparedRecovery
- What Each Choice Commits You to Over the YearsLong term
- Capsule, Rupture and Infection: The Risks of Each RouteRisks
- Removing Now and Replacing Later: Keeping the Option OpenSequencing
- When the Problem Is Not the Implant at AllWhen neither fits
Start with an assessment, not a decision
Arrange an assessment. It establishes what your own tissue contributes and what each decision would leave behind, and we will explain both plainly before anything is planned.